as a millennial who doesn’t like avocado old man politicians owe me collectively $500,000
the two responses to this are “I hate avocado and I don’t understand the hype” and “I love avocado but those fuckers owe me money anyway” and you know what? you’re all valid
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
Some of you have never taken the ‘Am I Gay’ quiz at 13, deliberately chosen the obviously straight answers, and gone to bed content in your clearly authentic, airtight heterosexuality and it shows
not to be mean lesbian on main but y’all (yes even within the lgbt community) really do get away with saying shit on here about lesbians that’s just blatantly lesbophobic and no one ever calls it out besides lesbians and it’s so transparent
no amount of “let’s go lesbians” or thor memes or ~solidarity~ posts you reblog make up for saying stuff like “i love lesbians just not the hairy mean ‘kill all men’ ones uwu” and people will fucking agree! the whole “butch pal” thing happened and everyone took it as a chance to call butch lesbians unhygienic and said shit like “what will they just teach them not to shower as much lol” and other shit that compares lesbians to gross cishet men as if thats not how we’re already seen
y’all don’t listen to lesbians talk about the shit (and even violence) we get from men unless you can relate, bc apparently once we realize we’re lesbians men disappear from our life. y’all derail posts about lesbophobia, and about lesbian positivity without even thinking that maybe it’s inappropriate. I’ve seen people tell lesbians “well sexuality is fluid” or “everyone’s a little bi” as if wanting lesbians to be attracted to men is anything new
ive seen people refer to a lesbian that pisses them off as a “legbeard” as if that’s not just a pc d-slur AND a backhanded insult to all gnc women. people say they just “feel unsafe” around lesbians for whatever reason (predatory lesbian stereotype anyone?), say that they always do a fucking background check on people with lesbian icons/urls, ive seen anti-antis (among other groups) say that lesbians are more likely to be “judgy bitches”
and imma keep it real with you chief but someone judging me for my lesbianism bc they approximate lesbians to terfs (which is shitty to trans lesbians, inaccurate to the fact that most terfs are straight, and lets bi/straight terfs fly under the radar) or any of the other shit ive seen said about lesbians and someone judging me for lesbianism bc of “religious reasons” are the same to me in the end, and if anything the lgbt lesbophobe is gonna hurt me more (especially if it’s a bi woman) bc that’s the person who’s supposed to be on my fucking side!
anyway like. if you look at the number of notes on a post that’s like “haha lesbians cool” versus the number of notes on a post talking about lesbophobia from other lgbt people you’ll see that no one wants to talk about this. so, my original version when i typed out this post had an uncensored d-slur in it a lot but i took it out so y’all don’t have an excuse to not reblog this! i greatly encourage other lgbt people to reblog this actually!
(quick disclaimer on my point about being unsafe around lesbians: trans women, especially trans lesbians, are absolutely allowed to feel unsafe around cis lesbians. of course, if they’re singling out cis lesbians compared to other cis people then that’s lesbophobic, but a trans person feeling unsafe around cis people is never inherently a bad thing)
Okay now that I’ve finally quit Denny’s let me tell you guys about the bizarre fucking otherworld it is
The music and the room temperature are controlled by corporate. Corporate plays a lot of pop covers of Disney princess songs I’ve never heard before. I now have a dance routine to the K-Pop sounding version of Let it Go.
Our sign flickered fast and red and demonically for a week and the repairman said he couldn’t find anything wrong with it.
People did drug deals in, like, broad daylight in the middle of the parking lot multiple times a week.
It’s open 24/7. We had a backup generator none of us knew about until there was a massive storm one night and we looked out to see a tree knocked over and our lights the only thing on for miles. You could weather the apocalypse with no idea the apocalypse was even happening.
Regular customers included:
A man convinced the chemtrails are real who gave me six separate pieces of literature on the subject
A little person named Kevin who told me “sometimes I call myself a dwarf when I’m feeling whimsical”
An actual group of Neo-Nazis
An actual Earth, Wind, and Fire cover band (they played for us)
Twins who came in separately on the same day and I thought they were one woman changing outfits rapidly for the longest time
A Scottish landscaper who told us we “couldn’t prove he doesn’t know Simon Pegg”
I have more these are just off the top of my head
I can’t believe I forgot
two line cooks got into a really heated argument about whether Vin Diesel is bisexual or not
I asked an elderly man if he wanted to use the AARP discount and he said “No, I’m not a socialist”.
